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I just joind fico, and and I need some help
My Fico score is 725
My CREDITSECURE EX is 665
My CREDITSECURE EQ is 736
My CREDITSECURE TU is 736
I have one unpiad medical that is due to get dropped from EX within 3-4 months(7 years old), after that I think EX score will go to 700s
I only have one Amex Gold card " open account " that was in good standing for 9 years, no late payments at all over the 9 years
in the last 4 years I applied alot for CC and always got rejected, now I have 0 inquiries for the last year and only 1 over the last 2 years about to get dropped in early 2013
my target is to get my score to 800s and to be able to get a decent revolving CC, I don't have debt at all and I always pay my charges by the end of each month
and I am not planning to get in debt, I just want have good score and one or two more cc, also I may need to get car loan in 2013
should I start applying now or wait, I am really scared of getting rejected again.
Hello there. It might be quite simple actually. In your myFICO EQ report on page 2 or 3, look for "Ratio of your revolving balances to your credit limits"; there should be a percentage. If you don't see it, look for your Amex Gold card account farther down in the report to see if a credit limit is reported. If not, your so-called utilization may be zero, and FICO likes it much better if there are reported credit limits. Also, on page 2 what are the factors in red under "What's hurting your FICO® score"?
Well, it depends on what you need. If EX is the only thing w/a derog (and it's pretty old) you should be able to qualify. If you belong to a credit union, go apply for a cc with them. The limit will grow with you and they already know you.
You have good credit reporting, right?
What is your "dream" cc? I would go ahead and go for it, one inquiry surely won't kill you.
Welcome to the forum!
Your scores are pretty good! The only thing you are lacking is credit history.
Is the AMEX Gold the only credit you have on your report? Do you have any old auto loans? Do you have any student loans? Do you have a mortgage?
You need to have at least 3 credit cards to maximize your scores. Here are my suggestions:
Apply for an AMEX Blue Cash Everyday or an AMEX Blue Cash Preferred, whichever card fits you best. The Blue Cash Everyday doesn't have an annual fee while the Blue Cash Preferred has an annual fee but the rewards are larger. I normally wouldn't suggest applying for this card but seeing that you've had a Gold card for 9 years you should be approved. If you are not approved it will only be a soft pull anyway because you are a current AMEX member. These cards are revolvers and let you carry a balance month to month unlike your Gold charge card.
Do you shop at Walmart? If you shop at Walmart then definitely apply for the Walmart card. You will get a free TU08 FICO score every month for free after signing up for electronic bill pay. This card is backed by GE and they are really good with automatic credit line increases. You have an excellent chance at being approved for this card.
You may also want to apply for 1 card from one of these prime banks:
Bank of America
Wells Fargo
You might be denied a card from these banks at this point but I would suggest giving it a try. You certainly won't get it if you don't try. If you are denied, keep trying again every 6 months. The only reason I see you being denied for one of these cards is your thin file or lack of credit card credit history.
Please stop back and let us know how you do with the approvals!
Good luck!
Hi thanks for your help,
on myfico report
i see this
Total owed on revolving accounts $4792
Largest past balance
the 3 red items in my fico are
You have few accounts that are in good standing.
The amount owed on your revolving accounts is too high.
There is no recent activity on your credit cards.
Hi, thank you
well, I don't belong to a credit union, Amex is reporting every month and for 9 years, never late
I need to get cc with no anual, decent interst, I don't like debt and the max I want to do is maybe pay sometimes over one or two month not more, without the risk to
getting crazy high interst
How many credit cards do you have?
I thought you had just 1 AMEX Gold card?
The AMEX Blue Cash Everyday is probably the card for you. You will get cash back on all your purchases and there isn't an annual fee.
Hi, thanks you again, I am not sure if its good to reply msg by msg or all at once ! anyway
Yes, Amex gold is the only card in my report, I never had cards before, never had car loan or any kind of loans or mortgage.
I know I need more cc, but trying to get the best for my needs, low interst, no anual fees, something like that
I like the idea of applying to Amex Blue, but how should I do it,
should I wait few month until the EQ record drops ? or do it now ?
also should I apply for all the cards I need one time, or one by one
I can bring my util to 0% within few days, because I pay the charges eveymonth anyway, should I do that, and wait until Amex soft pull and apply ?
I took longtime to be here, as more than 6 years ago, I always got rejected for cc, and did not know why, after long long crazy fight I found that the cc berue was reporting my brother bad records to my report ! including an bankrubcy, by the time I fixed that, my account already had alot of cc inqu. and I gave up getting any cc
now after longtime on 665 score, the last and the only bad medical record is dropped and my score gone high, so hope I can do it right this time,
I don't shop at walmart a lot, maybe 1 or 2 times a month, most of my money goes to designer closthing and resturants
if Amex refuse me for blue, I think the applied 3 years ago to get blue and they did not approve it, now can I talk to them ? or waste of time ?
Thank you
I need to add one more thing,
I don't need cc urgent now, I can wait if it is better, in fact also I have some cash that I can use to help my score if I can, maybe 2-3K
should I open secure card?
Thank you


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Q & A with North Florida Developer Billy Scheel
Developer Billy Scheel [Photo: Rodney Rogers]
North Florida developer Billy Scheel, who helped revitalize the downtowns of both Gainesville and Ocala, recently opened the first hotel in downtown Gainesville since the city center moved west in the mid-20th century. Scheel owns several buildings and identical restaurants — Harry's Seafood Bar and Grille and Mark's U.S. Prime — in downtown Ocala and downtown Gainesville.
Florida Trend: How is occupancy at the Hampton Inn & Suites that opened this fall in downtown Gainesville?
Billy Scheel: Booked for football weekends, as we expected, and it would have been slow in December, except that ABC brought 'Extreme Makeover' to Gainesville and booked the place for two weeks.
FT: You've just signed Urban Flats to open in March as the final tenant in the mixed-use space under the hotel. Was it difficult to find the restaurant tenant you were looking for in the downturn?
Scheel: No. I could have had it filled up right away, but I didn't think Gainesville needed five more Japanese steakhouses. Since I own everything around it, I wanted something that would bring more people downtown and bring more diversity to our mix.
FT: Ocala leaders would like to see a hotel downtown as well. Do you think that's a possibility?
Scheel: Hotel occupancy in Ocala at this point is lower than the hotel chains like to see, so I would say not yet.
FT: Are the Gainesville restaurants doing better in the downturn since the unemployment rate is relatively low compared to Ocala's?
Scheel: No. Harry's and Mark's Prime in Ocala are doing a little better than the same restaurants in Gainesville. They always have.
FT: Do you see doing anything new in Ocala in the near future?
Scheel: There's plenty of office space down there, but apartments would be great. I would love to do a Union Station down there (mixed-use condos and shops in downtown Gainesville).
FT: What needs to happen for developers to do some apartments in downtown Ocala? Scheel: Gainesville has historically had more incentives. I think developers are waiting for Ocala to get more proactive.

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a kelly for travelling
Added Sep 16, 2013
by lumiukko
Vancouver, Canada
This is Megan Nielsen's Kelly skirt. It's a very quick make. I am a very slow sewer and I made this in one evening because I wanted to wear it out over the weekend! This is now available as a PDF on her website, yay! You can also get the print pattern, though.
I don't own any skirts, really, so I was hoping this would go with a lot of my tops that would look good tucked into skirts. I'm not sure it works that well for that, honestly. I think it would be most flattering with fitted tops and not the looser, blouse-y ones that I have. Perhaps with a less stiff fabric?
I love this fabric! It's a ramie/denim blend. I have no idea what ramie is but this denim looks really nice. It's a little bit nubby and it has a nice sheen to it. I'm not sure the buttons I chose really suit the skirt but I couldn't pass them up. I like how they catch light. I used actual topstitching thread for the topstitching and I like it. Woo.
Material Notes
1.25 metres ramie/denim blend, quilting cotton scraps for pocket lining.
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Dec 28, 2013, 12.36 PMby Rikamekko
Fabulous skirt, I'd like one like yours. The photos of beautiful scene is nice,too. By the way, your name "lumiukko" is very like finnish to me, sound cute!
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Jan 4, 2014, 02.25 AMby lumiukko
Thank you! The photo was taken on the ferry between Vancouver and Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. And, you're right! Lumiukko is the finnish word for snowman :). I hope I'll be able to work with some marimekko fabrics like you soon.
Jan 4, 2014, 11.11 AMby Rikamekko
Thank you for your reply. Must be a nice place there : ) I'm right, yay! I like finnish sound. Your name is really nice. I'm looking forward to see your next project, maybe something with marimekko…? ; ))
Sep 17, 2013, 11.10 AMby leokadia
Das ist dein 1. skirt und genäht in "freestyle"?
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Sep 19, 2013, 03.07 PMby lumiukko
Hi leokadia! I have previously made skirts many years ago, but this is my first lately. I used a pattern for this one!
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Chances are good that by this time next year you will have firsthand contact with someone who vapes — uses an electronic inhaler that simulates the act of smoking.
And when you observe the thick cloud of vapor emanating from that person's mouth instead of smoke, you may be witnessing the biggest single play in consumable products that some industry executives say is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
"In my career, there has not been a sector that has so much potential and is so untapped in terms of value and global reach," said Jim McCormick, CFO of Victory Electronic Cigarettes Corp. (OTCQB: ECIG), a West Michigan company that aims to be the nation's largest independent producer of vaping products.
Daniel Lawitzke, a Grand Rapids entrepreneur who pioneered the retail market in vaping liquids and devices in West Michigan, likens it to the rush to the marketplace by dietary supplements in the 1990s, when "antioxidants" became a household word — followed by the need for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to step in with regulations.
Instead of smoking "analog" cigarettes that contain hundreds of chemicals resulting from the combustion of tobacco, people are inhaling a vapor of vegetable glycerin and propylene glycol, flavorings and nicotine. To produce the vapor as they inhale, users activate a device that generally has a battery-powered heating element surrounding a wick saturated with the e-liquid.
Lawitzke, who launched Mister-E-Liquid LLC in the summer of 2010 after he was able to quit smoking through vaping, now employs 43 full- and part-time people at a 16,000-square-foot laboratory and two retail outlets in Grand Rapids, with plans to open a third store in Lansing this month.
Brick-and-mortar outlets such as Lawitzke's that are springing up throughout Michigan are only a wisp of the industry's vapor cloud. More than a thousand businesses worldwide hope to strike it rich as suppliers to people who vape, ranging from gargantuan corporations such as Altria Group Inc. and Lorillard Inc. to tiny operations with whimsical names such as Planet of the Vapes that sell e-liquids online. Some mom-and-pop operations literally whip up their e-liquid formulas in kitchens, garages and basements.
Wild Bill's Tobacco, a Clawson-based owner of 21 tobacco specialty stores and franchiser or business partner in an additional 29 such stores throughout Michigan, is shifting gears to capture market share in vaping. The company, founded in 1994 as the Smoker's Outlet, has launched two stores called Mr. Vapor that cater specifically to the vaping consumer, said Wild Bill's chief marketing officer, Justin Samona.
Over the next year, Wild Bill's hopes to open 10 additional Mr. Vapor stores, mostly in the Detroit area. In addition, all Wild Bill's stores now have Mr. Vapor sections, which offer a variety of products and "gourmet juice bars" that allow store personnel to mix customized e-liquid blends for customers.
"Every day, customers are switching over from tobacco cigarettes to electronic cigarettes because they see it as a healthier alternative — also a cheaper and cleaner alternative," Samona said. "Instead of having to go outside to smoke a cigarette — especially when it is cold — it is something they can do inside their homes and maybe even their workplaces."
One website lists more than 180 retail outlets in metro Detroit as selling vaping products.
Samona said his company is slowing down expansion of the Wild Bill's concept and focusing more on Mr. Vapor, a move that also serves to protect existing Wild Bill's locations from losing customers to other vape shops. A Mr. Vapor shop may carry three times the selection of e-cigarettes, disposables, starter kits and e-liquids that a Wild Bill's carries, he said.
The company employs about 120 people throughout its chain of stores and at its 15,000-square-foot distribution center in Clawson.
Other companies such as LorAnn Oils Inc. in Lansing are being swept up unintentionally by the vaping revolution. LorAnn, established in 1962, is an old-line manufacturer and distributor of flavorings and essential oils used by home crafters and professionals who make candy, baked goods, frozen desserts and soaps. But several vaping websites recommend LorAnn Oils flavorings for e-liquids, even offering a color-coded list of those best for inhalation.
"We are in a bit of a quandary," said John Grettenberger Jr., grandson of LorAnn Oils founder O.K. Grettenberger. "Our flavoring products are FDA-approved for ingestion, and no one knows the result of them being used for inhalation. We would never suggest that our products be used this way, and we wouldn't even think about going after this market."
Speed is of the essence
Victory Electronic Cigarettes has embarked on a go-big-or-go-home strategy that its president, Brent Willis, likens to a military campaign. The West Point graduate even invokes the name of the legendary war strategist Carl von Clausewitz when he talks about growing share in the vaping market.
"In his study of war, Clausewitz talked about the ability of maneuver — for us, that means speed, moving faster than the competition," Willis said. "You have to do the right thing — and you have to do the right thing at the right time."
Doing the right thing at the right time has placed Victory Electronic on a tear when it comes to acquiring other businesses. It has concluded three acquisitions of companies this year, and Willis said the company has agreed on terms to purchase seven more companies or distribution platforms in 2014 to further consolidate its sales and distribution channels.
Last month, Victory Electronic filed its federal S-1 registration for the public sale of stock to raise up to $149.5 million.
"So we have gone from zero in mid-2013 to about $75 million in revenues on a pro forma basis, and we expect to be well over $200 million in revenues by the end of this year," Willis said in an interview before the company filed its S-1 registration. Pro forma statements filed in the S-1 showed a net loss from operations of about $12.7 million.
The company intends to change its name to Electronic Cigarettes International Group Ltd. to match its ticker symbol, but the new moniker also reflects its worldwide sales strategy. Victory Electronic purchased Atlanta-based FIN Electronic Cigarette Corp. Inc. in February, United Kingdom-based Vapestick Holdings Ltd. in January and Must Have Limited in April.
Willis intends to put his international experience as a former executive for the Coca Cola Co., Kraft Foods Inc., Cott Corp. and InBev to work opening the international markets for Victory Electronic Cigarettes.
Big plans from a small space
To say that Victory Electronic is flying below the radar is an understatement: The company shares space with a woodworking business owned by Willis' father-in-law in rural Nunica, about 26 miles east of Grand Rapids. A towering grain elevator and parked semis of a nearby business overshadow the parking lot of Versatile Wood Solutions, a manufacturer of store displays and architectural millwork.
No sign marks the fact that Victory Electronic Cigarettes is operating in about 3,000 square feet at the plant.
"Every penny counts," Willis said with a grin when asked about the humble surroundings that serve as the nerve center for Victory Electronic. The company employs more than 100 people locally and at offices and distribution centers in Atlanta and the United Kingdom.
What is quickly thinning the crowd among vaping competitors is access to distribution through convenience stores and mass merchandisers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Rite Aid Corp., which serve a majority of the 1.3 billion people who the American Cancer Society estimates smoke worldwide.
"Retailers are already making (vaping) space for the big tobacco guys — Lorillard, Reynolds and Altria," Willis said. "But the big tobacco companies have some real weaknesses that we can exploit."
Brand, price and flavor selection aren't the biggest factors when it comes to consumers making purchasing decisions at this point, he said. "Right now, 65 percent of all brand choice today is made on what's there, what's available, what's on display," Willis said.
With the recent acquisitions, Victory Electronic sells its products through more than 50,000 retail outlets in the United States and Europe, which together make up an estimated 70 percent of e-cigarette sales worldwide, according to estimates from Euromonitor International, a London-based provider of global business intelligence.
Euromonitor estimated that retail sales of e-cigarettes reached about $3.5 billion worldwide last year, less than one-half percent of the total $756 billion retail tobacco market globally. Sales of e-cigarettes grew more than 180 percent in the United States in 2013 from the prior year, the firm said, and the sector is expected to continue to take more market share from combustible cigarettes.
Willis and McCormick hope to capture more shelf space by cutting lucrative deals with distributors and retailers that large tobacco companies will find hard to match. Tobacco companies typically offer distributors a 3 percent markup off of cost, while Victory Electronic Cigarettes can offer up to 25 percent markup off of cost, Willis said.
"That changes the economics for distributors in a very significant way," he said. "We offer 30-day payment terms to distributors, and the tobacco companies offer net minus five — you pay for your product on Monday and you receive it on Friday.
"We also offer very favorable profit margins for retailers like Meijer. The tobacco companies are at about 8 percent, while we can offer profit margins up to 50 percent."
In a study of 25 state laws that set minimum prices for cigarette wholesaling and retailing operations, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta found in 2010 that the median wholesale markup was 4 percent and the median retail markup 8 percent.
With such high stakes, the world's largest tobacco companies have acquired or launched e-cigarette brands themselves. Since buying Blu Ecigs in 2012, Lorillard has built Blu into a leading e-cigarette brand with heavy promotion that tapped celebrity Jenny McCarthy.
Reynolds American Inc. launched its own Vuse brand in July last year, and Altria Group introduced its MarkTen brand in August.
Blueberry? Cotton candy?
Aside from elbowing for space on cigarette shelves, companies that make vaping products also are struggling to understand what their customers want. A bewildering array of delivery devices have flooded the market — such as — "cig-a-likes" that are the size and shape of ordinary cigarettes with rechargeable batteries, refillable atomizers about the size of a cigar and hundreds of formulas of e-liquids that are flavored to simulate blueberries, chocolate or even cotton candy.
"We don't know how the product is going to evolve — e-liquids, vaporizers, disposables, rechargeables," Willis said. "Anyone who says they know exactly where the market is headed is lying. So do it all. ... Take the best ideas and bring them to market very quickly."
For example, Victory Electronic is introducing at Walgreen Co. stores this month a disposable clearomiser system discovered in Europe that lets customers see the level of e-liquids left in the unit.
Lawitzke of Mister-E-Liquid has built a business on anticipating the market with a variety of ready-to-use, refillable and disposable delivery systems along with separate components such as batteries, coils and tips so customers can assemble their own personal vaping equipment.
More than half of Mister-E-Liquid's revenue comes from wholesale and retail sales of more than 100 flavors of custom-mixed e-liquids, which range from Gran-E's Apple Pie to Maniac Mint Chocolate. The company sells products in 47 countries and supplies liquids to more than 300 vape shops nationally.
Instead of competition, Lawitzke views companies such as Victory Electronic and Blu as portals for smokers-turned-vapers to find his business online.
"They think that people want a device that looks like a cigarette, but what we've learned is that people who are vaping really don't want to be associated with smokers," he said.
Soon after they try e-cigarettes, people often search out delivery devices that are higher-powered and refillable, Lawitzke said. "When they get them home and see $20 for a five-pack of cartridges, their first instinct is to say: 'I'm going to search Google and find them cheaper. And that's where we come in.' "
Another misconception is that adults don't like a variety of flavors. "The majority of our client base started with tobacco-flavored e-liquid, and they wanted it to taste like a cigarette when they first started," Lawitzke said. "What we found is after a month or so, our customers don't want to taste tobacco anymore — it's gross.
"After their taste buds regain their sense of taste, tobacco doesn't taste as good as strawberries or blueberries. The thing that gets people off analog cigarettes in the long term is the flavoring — the fact that you can taste apple pie if you want to taste apple pie."
Willis and Lawitzke were adamant about enforcing age restrictions on the sale of their products and the need for FDA regulations. In April, the federal agency proposed rules that would require vaping product companies to register, list ingredients in e-liquids and impose minimum age and identification restrictions to prevent sales to those under age 18. At the end of a 75-day public comment period, the agency will enact the rules that it deems necessary.
In the manufacture of e-liquids, "people are just picking up what looks good, and they are mixing it in their kitchens or, God forbid, their garages or bathrooms," Lawitzke said. "That's part of the problem. There's no accountability."
Mister-E-Liquid purchases its base materials, flavorings and nicotine from suppliers that document the concentrations and purity of their products and mixes the ingredients in its ISO-certified Class 6 clean room in Grand Rapids. The company, a founding member of the American E-Liquid Manufacturing Standards Association, does regular testing of final product, Lawitzke said.
Willis said Victory Electronic Cigarettes imports its products from China, but it has plans to move manufacturing to the United States during the next year.
"It's our intention to be the leading independent electronic cigarette company in the world, fully in control of our own destiny, right here in West Michigan," he said.
"Frankly, the thing that keeps me up at night is the money that big tobacco — and big pharma, for that matter — can throw around because we are eating into the smoking cessation business."
Matthew Gryczan: (616) 916-8158, [email protected]. Twitter: @mattgryczan


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Note: This post is cross-published on my "Live…In Concert" blog on the Psychology Today website.
In many ways, the label "self-taught musician" is a misnomer. Even those who learn from YouTube videos avail themselves of the musical models of others. Most people who become skilled musicians only do so with the involvement of other people such as teachers, mentors, and musical peers. One of the most important functions they serve is giving feedback. Whether in the formal contexts of school classes or private lessons, or in more informal settings like a friend's garage or basement, budding performers learn a lot about their musicianship from other people's evaluation and advice.
At some point in their development, young musicians become less dependent on the appraisals of others and engage more in self-evaluation. Accurately hearing one's own performance, however, is not always a straightforward process. In fact, self-awareness may not be a strong suit for some performers. I was recently asked about this by someone in audio production and engineering whose experiences had led him to believe that many musicians are poor judges of their own work. He wondered if there's a psychological phenomenon by which performers mentally replace what is actually sounded with a version from their "mind's ear."
I think he's onto something. In my own research, I've had numerous experiences in which musicians I'm working with are unaware of aspects of their own performance. In some ways, this is hardly noteworthy. Many of the expressive features that musicians put in their performances are done fairly automatically, presumably the result of much musical enculturation and practice. In one experiment (Woody, 2003), I asked advanced pianists to play a "deadpan" version of a melody—one with no expressive variations in tempo or loudness—and found that they were consistently unable to do it. But what's more interesting are times when performers believe they have added certain expressive features in their music, when in fact they have not. It would seem that their musical intentions interfere with their ability to accurately hear their performance.
To understand this phenomenon better, I offer up a model of cognitive skills used in music performance (I believe it also can be applied to other types of skilled performance such as sports, but I'll stick to music here). When people make music, there are three kinds of cognition going on:
- Goal imaging is the ability to generate a clear idea of what the music should sound like. Because music deals with sound, this "image" is primarily aural, but it may also include some visual or conceptual aspects (e.g., focusing on a "high point" in a phrase). While most everyone holds goal images of music in memory—it's how people can decide whether a particular rendition of a familiar song sounds good or bad—skilled musicians create precise images to guide their own performance.
- Motor production is the ability to carry out the physical movements and responses needed to sing or play a particular instrument. At first thought, this ability might not seem cognitive in nature, but remember that "muscle memory" resides not in the muscles but in the memory (i.e., the mind). Learning a physical skill involves remembering the "feel" of it. New motor skills start off requiring much conscious effort, but with adequate repetition, they can reach a level of automaticity.
- Self-monitoring is the ability to accurately hear one's own performance. This is not always easy to do, which is why musicians can be surprised when they hear recordings of themselves ("Did I really sound like that?"). The importance of self-monitoring is seen in the research showing that musicians' motor learning is significantly impaired when they cannot hear their performance (e.g., Brown & Palmer, 2012).
It is the interaction between these three skills that accounts for improvement made in musicians' practice sessions. With a clear idea in mind of what they're trying to sound like (goal image), musicians can compare it to how they do sound (self-monitoring). Identifying discrepancies between the two should guide them in adjusting their technique (motor production).
Especially when performing unfamiliar music, carrying out these cognitive skills can demand all of a musician's attention. It may, in fact, demand more. Performers can cognitively "max out" just from concentrating on what they're trying to sound like and on executing the physical skills required. They may not have attentional resources available to accurately hear the results of their efforts (see also Keller, 2001). This is why younger musicians can be so dependent on the feedback of others to know whether they performed something well. They simply cannot encode into memory both the goal and the outcome of performance. More experienced musicians may become so focused on the expressive intentions of their performances that they forget—or simply do not want to be bothered—to listen objectively to the sounds they're producing. Instead of comparing the products of goal imaging and self-monitoring to guide their performance, they linger over the goal.
This model can be useful to musicians as they attempt to diagnose their performance problems. It can also be useful to teachers—perhaps even music producers—when they are trying to get performers to change something about their playing or singing. The key comes in pinpointing where a breakdown is happening. Does the musician not have a good idea of what he or she is supposed to sound like? If so, goal imaging can be built through additional listening, both to recordings and expert models (certainly school band directors would have an easier time in rehearsals if their students actually listened to band music). Alternatively, some musicians' practice sessions may be ineffective because they are unaware of what they truly sound like. Perhaps they are practicing music that so challenges them technically that all their cognitive resources are devoted to merely producing the desired sounds on an instrument. In this case, I'd recommend they audio record their practicing and listen carefully upon playback.
By proposing this model, I'm not suggesting that making music should be experienced as an analytical process. Although I do believe these cognitive skills underlie performance, I'd suggest that musicians only try to bring them to the surface while practicing. Successful performance is marked by more fluid or "natural" music making. I suspect that through initial consciousness and the careful repetition of practice, these cognitive skills become automatized in expert musicians. It's likely they come to use extramusical ideas—emotions, mental imagery, expressive metaphors—to more efficiently encode into memory the sounds and "feel" of performance that they acquire through experience.
Brown, R. M., & Palmer, C. (2012). Auditory-motor learning influences auditory memory for music. Memory & Cognition, 40, 567-578.
Keller, P. E. (2001). Attentional resource allocation in musical ensemble performance. Psychology of Music, 29, 20-38.
Woody, R. H. (2003). Explaining expressive performance: Component cognitive skills in an aural modeling task. Journal of Research in Music Education, 51, 51-63.
Copyright 2012 Robert H. Woody
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Lesson 9 of 15
Objective: SWBAT use text features to write and answers questions about an online informational text.
- Website with informational text written at 2nd grade level ** I used Magnets Help Us (it had clear illustrations, text students could read, and several text features)
- Lesson vocabulary words from the Reading/Writing word wall: informational, literal, evaluative, inference, questioning, text features (choose the ones that you use)
- 'Literal & Inferential Question Starters' chart
- 'Evaluative Question Starters' chart
- 'Informational Text Features (diagram, illustration, bold words for my online text)
- set up the whiteboard
- Questions worksheet (added when I retaught the lesson)
I chose this online article, "How Magnets Work", because the text is an 2nd grade level, it has clear text features, and has information about our science topic. My goal is to really focus on how questions help the student comprehend better and be an active reader. You can use any book or online text that has informational text at the 2nd grade level. Choose a topic you are studying and encourage students to read about what they are learning in science and social studies. I encourage you to use online text, when possible. Students today will be using less and less printed materials and more online information. They need to be able to read and comprehend this text, using questioning to more fully interact with the text.
This is a lesson in the middle of a unit about questioning. In this lesson, the students ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text (RL.2.1), which supports the shift in Common Core Standards toward using text evidence to improve comprehension. We are using informational text to ask and answer the three kinds of questions - literal, evaluative, and inferential. My students are fairly comfortable with the three types of questions and understand how to find the answers to each type. We have created charts to help with starting the questions (in materials section). They have also learned about and used the kinds of text features in multiple lessons.
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Underlined words below are lesson vocabulary words that are emphasized and written on sentence strips for my Reading & Writing word wall. I pull off the words off the wall for each lesson, helping students understand this key 'reading and writing' vocabulary can be generalized across texts and topics. The focus on acquiring and using these words is part of a shift in the Common Core Standards towards building students' academic vocabulary. My words are color coded 'pink' for literature/'blue' for reading strategies/'orange' for informational text/'yellow' for writing/'green' for all other words.
Get students engaged
- Pull out some magnets - my students are SO interested in this topic (if you're doing another topic, find a video). Concrete examples are a powerful way to engage students and to bring them to a common learning place.
- "Let's write a few words about this topic." (We used attract, repel, magnet, pole, metal, field, and compass). Here's the vocabulary review that I put on the board.
- "We'll be reading more in an informational text."
Common starting point
- "Look at the informational text features that we've learned so far! There are so many!!" Refer to the features on the board and review as necessary. This is how it looked as I reviewed the text features.
- "Our story has several of these features, including 'bold print', 'diagrams' and 'illustrations'."
- "How do text features help us?" find information, understand the text better, see the information in a different way
If you have not taught lessons about questioning text, I encourage you to look at some of the earlier lessons so your students get some practice with writing and answering questions. See the other lessons included in this unit for more!
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Teacher's Turn
Give the purpose of the lesson
- "Let's take a minute and review how questions help with comprehension." Take ideas - be 'active readers', interact with the text, understand the text better....
- "Look at the 'question word charts' that we developed in the past few lessons. What are the different kinds of questions?" (inferential, literal, and evaluative)
Introduce and model the strategy
- "How do we find information that answers questions."
- "For literal questions, we check the words and illustrations. They start with these words (refer to chart)."
- "For inferential questions, we use background knowledge-what we know. The words and illustrations often help us find answers." Those questions also start with these words (refer to chart)."
- "Evaluative questions are opinion questions based on something in the text. They have questions that start with these words (refer to chart). There are no 'right' or 'wrong' answers for these questions and you may have different answers."
- "I'm going to read the first paragraph of this text and write a question on the whiteboard." Read the first paragraph. "What metal is a magnet?"
- "I'll check the text -iron- the answer is in the text. That means it's a literal question. I'll use the answer in the text as evidence." Here's a demonstration of how to find answers to informational text.
Practice strategy - guided practice
- "Let's try one together. I'll write an inferential question using my question starter chart. 'Will the north pole and south pole attract?' What's the evidence? We have seen these poles attract before and there's a picture in the book about opposite magnets, so I'll say 'yes'. I used what I know and information from the book to answer that inferential question."
- "Let's write an evaluative question (Read the 2nd paragraph)- I'll look at my question words chart and use a word - 'How would you know which is the north pole?" Take ideas. Here's how I demonstrated how to answer evaluative questions, using evidence.
- This is what the whiteboard with questions and answers looked like after our discussion.
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Assign Task
I left the last 3 paragraphs for the students because they have a few text features and are shorter.
- "There are some illustrations and text features that can provide evidence to answer the questions."
- "Your job is to read each paragraph and write the kind of question - one for each part of the paragraph. Remember the question needs to help you understand. Questions like 'Do you like magnets?' or 'Are the magnets pretty?' don't really help us learn more." This is how I guided students toward independent work.
- "Fold your paper into thirds (demonstrate this) and use the top, middle, and bottom for each question. Try to write 3 good questions that are unique and make us use the illustration, inference or text to figure out."
- Here's how I guided the students through one more example of questioning.
- This is an example of one student's questions.
Students work - formative assessment
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- Walk around, prompting as necessary and looking to see if students are using different question words and unique questions. Remind them to write a question about an illustration, as well.
- As students finish, I also ask them to be introspective about reading online text. This was one student's opinion about using online text.
As students learn and use various text features to locate key facts in the text efficiently, they are able to analyze the structure of texts, including how specific parts relate to each other and the text as a whole (RI.2.5) . Students become more introspective close readers, analyzing the text features as they read and integrating the knowledge gained from them into the text.
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Share What You've Learned
Share what you know
- "We have talked about magnets and read some text. We can deepen our understanding further by answering and sharing the questions. - I saw some good ones as I walked around."
- "I'm going to pass out the magnets and let you try out some of the ideas that we read about. Some of you have evaluative questions to answer with the magnets."
- This gives the students the chance to use the vocabulary and test out what they've read. The students are testing the ideas of what they've read. It was enlightening for them and a great opportunity to use the test out the concepts of the informational text.
- Here's an example of some of my students answering their questions - student answering an evaluative question and another student reading and answering an evaluative question.
Using informational text to ask questions that can be verified with text, illustrations, and background knowledge is a great way for students to better comprehend what they read. As they use close reading strategies to question ideas and concepts (RI.2.1), they are forming inferences and ultimately opinions by using evaluative questions. Allowing them to test their theories and opinions by using manipulatives (magnets), encourages them to again test and verify what they think with hard evidence.
Scaffolding and Special Education: This lesson could be scaffolded up or down, depending on student ability.
Students with academic challenges should work with the teacher in a small group or use question prompts given on a white board. Writing questions is often hard for students who struggle academically, but they can really benefit from the modeling and guided practice. Here is student demonstrating understanding with the magnets - he struggles, but still is learning. His questions are not written well, but he continues to make good progress with questioning and understanding the informational text.
For students with greater ability, I would challenge them to use those 'question chart words' that don't get used often (does, are....).


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The Rt Revd Dr Alastair Redfern, Bishop of Derby has released his annual Easter Message today via the diocesan website www.derby.aglican.org. The full message is shown below:
What is Easter? To most of us Easter is an event. A day, a moment in time. We send cards saying 'Happy Easter'. It is a moment of optimism. The time when the signs of Spring seem stronger. Thus the custom of wearing Easter bonnets – something I encourage at the Cathedral on Easter morning!
For many people Easter is a holiday event. A space to relax, see family and friends. For children (and others too!) it is a time for chocolate eggs.
All these things illuminate the core Christian message that new life can come out of suffering and death. That darkness will be overcome by light. A message and a moment of optimism, hope – in a world where there are many signs of stress, struggle, decay and death. The human heart has a deep instinct to hope – whatever the circumstances. Easter can be seen as THE event which confirms and blesses that instinct to hope – for life beyond death, for healing from suffering, for light out of darkness.
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Our first week of raising alpacas has been basically, blessedly uneventful. They're such quiet and peaceful animals. Not that we were expecting them to be constantly animated, but after a few hours we were saying 'hey guys do something!'
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The #1 Enterprise Open-Source Spam Filter
Welcome to the home page for the open-source Apache SpamAssassin Project.
Apache SpamAssassin is the #1 Open Source anti-spam platform giving system administrators a filter to classify email and block spam (unsolicited bulk email).
It uses a robust scoring framework and plug-ins to integrate a wide range of advanced heuristic and statistical analysis tests on email headers and body text including text analysis, Bayesian filtering, DNS blocklists, and collaborative filtering databases.
Apache SpamAssassin is a project of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).
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2015-04-30: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 has been released! Highlights include:
- improved automation to help combat spammers that are abusing new top level domains;
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- increased character set normalization to make rules easier to develop and stop spammers from using alternate character sets to bypass tests;
- continued refinement to the native IPv6 support; and
- improved Bayesian classification with better debugging and attachment hashing.News Archive page. Atom feed
- Wide-spectrum: SpamAssassin uses a wide variety of local and network tests to identify spam signatures. This makes it harder for spammers to identify one aspect which they can craft their messages to work around.
- Free software: it is distributed under the same terms and conditions as other popular open-source software packages such as the Apache web server.
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